My real point here is this whole man bites dog scenario that's being cooked up with these responses. "Oh my God Billy! If they make 8 gauges legal then everybody will use an 8 gauge and they'll kill every duck and goose that exists so there won't be any left for me to shoot!" There's a limit, it's 6 ducks where I hunt at, what difference does it really make how they're taken as long as the shooter enjoyed himself and obeyed the law?
That's the core of the matter, as long as nobody is harmed then what real difference does it make? I'm not that big a fan of bow hunting, I think a lot of deer get injured and suffer a lingering death by guys who don't practice or know how to hunt. But I'm not going to get up on my high horse and suggest that bow hunting is wrong. I'm all for it! It's hunting and I support hunting in all it's various forms throughout the world. When you start outlawing particular things it's the long (and sometime short) road to outlawing it all. When you get one hunter telling another how he should do it and that how he's doing it is morally wrong, well..... that's exactly what the anti-hunters and the liberal media love and want to see more of. That's what will kill the sport that we all love so much, not the vague chance that 8 gauge shotguns might ever come back into use.
Here's the classic example. I grew up hunting doves in Illinois, I moved to Michigan and there's no season on them here. Few years back the state did it's best to institute a season on them. The liberal media went to work and I actually know hunters and gun owners that voted against it. And you know what, it worked just like they wanted it to, we don't have a dove season here in Michigan and we never will because of this sort of disagreement in the ranks.
So anyway, rant over I promise. This is pointless and it's wasting time I could be spending stringing up a dozen new bluebill decoys I just got.
DLH
P.S. I only shoot a Parker at ducks and geese for the most part. I've been out with them already. My season runs till mid-January then another two weeks on geese late Jan into early Feb. I get out quite a bit have no fear.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
Last edited by Destry L. Hoffard; 10-07-2010 at 06:56 PM..
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